The Gagarin Launch modernization project has been suspended due to the absence of a third investor and a decrease in the activity of manned launches in Russia. The words of the Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry of Kazakhstan Bagdat Musin are transmitted by TASS .
As the official noted, he plans to discuss the situation around Baikonur in August with Roscosmos CEO Dmitry Rogozin. "The Arab Emirates did not give consent, we have now scheduled a meeting with Mr. Rogozin in August on the whole topic of Baikonur. At the moment, the attraction of investors has been suspended," the minister said.
In April, Rogozin said that Roscosmos would not yet restore the Gagarin Launch at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, from which Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin went into space on the Vostok spacecraft for the first time in the world, because "our hopes are that in the triumvirate of Russia — Kazakhstan — UAE we will get the result and additional funding, not successful."
Over the past half century, more than half a thousand launches have been carried out from the Baikonur site No. 1, including more than a hundred manned ones. It was from the "Gagarin launch" in 1957 that the first launches of R-7 rockets were carried out, and on October 4 of the same year the first artificial Earth satellite was launched. On April 12, 1961, the Vostok rocket was launched from the site, which took Yuri Gagarin into space on a manned spacecraft.
